AOC Announces AGON AG251FZ 240Hz FreeSync Monitor

This is just getting silly. While TN, 1080p monitors have been fading into the background, they are fast switching, and AOC is pushing that advantage. The AOC AGON AG251FZ is a 25-inch FreeSync display that can support up to 240 Hz refresh rates. They’re not the first monitor to reach this milestone, as Acer made a similar announcement back in August, but this display should be bright and smooth, especially for our readers with AMD GPUs.

If you like to smoothly scroll documents, then you may also appreciate that its stand can pivot into portrait mode. I doubt it will have the best color representation, though, so those who want to photo edit, especially outside of sRGB, may want to look elsewhere. In fact, they don’t even list their sRGB (web and video) or AdobeRGB (video and print) coverage. I’d hope it would at least have 100% sRGB, but I can’t say for sure.

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Is the pixel response time actually fast enough to support this high of refresh rate? I would think that a lot of displays would show artifacts even at refresh rates much lower than 240 Hz. Would the artifacts caused by the refresh rate exceeding the pixel response time he called ghosting, or something else? It might be interesting to get some really high speed camera footage of these things.